The Arthur Roger Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by contemporary Louisiana landscape painter Elemore Morgan Jr. The acrylic on masonite works were painted in Southeast Louisiana, New York City and New Orleans. The exhibition will be open between Saturday, May 3 and May 28th.
Shimmering reflections of the sunlit street muddled with vaguely discernable, shadowy art forms in the amorphous space of the large plate glass windows of the gallery.
The new landscape paintings by Elemore Morgan, Jr., hung quietly on the brightly lit white walls of the gallery on opening night.
THE LARGE MIXED media works of Radcliffe Bailey and the constructions, carvings, and castings of James Surls would seem at first viewing to be distinctly different. Bailey’s works command the attention of the viewer and allow no respite except to move on to the next one. Surls’ conceits invite close attention without being overwhelming. Yet, despite the many differences that one could list, the works of these two artists are both more and less than what may seem to be at first glance.
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Radcliffe Bailey, born in 1968, belongs to the next generation of Southern artists. Yet, like many working today, he readily acknowledges John Scott’s influence and encouragement. Like Scott, Bailey’s work draws inspiration from music.
It’s like a weird dream. Soul siren Irma Thomas, dressed in a golden Jackie Kennedy pantsuit, beckons us into a lush landscape of blue irises, python-like oak limbs, and red-winged black birds that sing along to old-fashioned phonograph records
Photographer Deborah Luster doesn’t try to connect the dots. In conversation, she lays out the autobiographical steppingstones that led to the creation of “One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana,” her 2002 masterpiece now on display at the Newcomb Art Gallery. But she leaves us to fill in the psychological blanks.
John Hartman’s painted cities are the ones parents tell their wide-eyed children about, the astounding metropolises formed by almighty rivers and buildings that ignore gravity as they make their way to the moon. They’re Oz or Xanadu’s pleasure dome.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of mixed media works by Radcliffe Bailey, including recently completed slave ship sculptures. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street from March 1st – 29th, 2008. Mr. Bailey will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, March 1st, from 6 to 8 pm.